Ivan Pozzoni
The web is a strange thing,
the freedom of the ignorant reigns supreme,
as the voluptuous-chinned Latins of the Hanseatic League used to say, necesse est navigare,
and we find ourselves stuck in the network like mussels in the current of the lamparo.
Every holy day we plunge into the mud of the World Wide Web,
disorientated like intimidated nomadic tourists looking for a Club Med,
tough and carefree like members of a neo-avant-garde,
embarked, real roughnecks, in the cabins of the Costa Concordia,
carefree enough to sail that everything ends up in front of a machete,
in the sado-masochistic jungle of webmasters, you always come across a webheber,
ready to gag you in a connection/disconnection relationship,
by convincing you, with ease, that you yourself are circumcision material.
My silly worms, where will they ever go
if any ball ends up in the net without the possibility of verifying,
no opportunity to criticise, if they fall on you in herds like neo-fascists ,
bundles in layettes with a baby bottle in their mouths as insatiable alcoholics,
all reasoning falls before the webbeast,
the web aristocracy centres on the De Sade brand,
‘abandon all hope’ you who enter here, in blog
if you’re wrong enough not to share tastes with Baron Sacher-Masoch’s.
In truth browsing has become a drama,
without having to connect the USB of your PC to the wires of an electroencephalogram:
who hasn’t guessed that the www has become an outlet,
is condemned to observe the net like Boris Beckett.
Ivan Pozzoni, from Monza, is a pioneer of Law and Literature studies in Italy and an extensive author on Italian philosophy, ancient ethics, and legal theory. Between 2007 and 2018, he published numerous works, including Underground, Riserva Indiana, Versi Introversi, Carmina non dant damen, and The Invective Disease. Pozzoni founded and directed the literary magazines Il Guastatore and L’Arrivista and serves as editor of the international philosophical journal Información Filosófica. Known for founding the NéoN-avant-garde movement, he authored an anti-manifesto and is featured in major university manuals and critical anthologies. His works, translated into French, English, and Spanish, have earned him critical acclaim, including the prestigious Raduga Award. In 2024, he reentered Italy’s art scene by establishing the NSEAE Kolektivne (New Socio/Ethno/Aesthetic Anthropology).
